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September 2, 2015 8:45 PM

Fully prepared to tackle dengue cases: Government

The Centre today said, it is fully prepared to tackle the spurt in dengue cases in various parts of the country. <br/><br/>Health Minister J P Nadda is personally reviewing the status of Dengue. An official release said, various meetings were held with Directors of Central government hos...

September 2, 2015 7:55 PM

E-auction of FM Radio completes 112 rounds

On the 28th day of e-auction of third phase of FM Radio, 96 channels spread over 56 cities, provisionally won the bidding. The auction fetched cumulative price of around 1,156 crore rupees against the aggregate reserve price of about 459 crore rupees. <br/><br/>So far, 112 rounds of bidd...

September 2, 2015 7:15 PM

Crop insurance period for Non-Loanee farmers extended to Sep 15

The Centre has extended crop insurance period under National Agricultural Insurance Scheme up to 15th of this month for the farmers bearing no loan.For loanee farmers the extension period will be upto end of this month.<br/><br/>In a statement, Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Minister Ra...

September 2, 2015 6:53 PM

India, Australia hold talks on boosting security co-operation

India and Australia today discussed bilateral co-operation in the field of security in a meeting in New Delhi today. The visiting Australian Minister of Defence, Kevin Andrews and the Minister of State for Home Affairs Kiren Rijiju discussed intelligence sharing, combating international terrorism, c...

September 2, 2015 6:07 PM

Congress dismisses reports about Rahul Gandhi not sharing dais with Lalu

Congress today dismissed reports that the Party Vice President Rahul Gandhi will not share dais with RJD chief Lalu Prasad during the campaign for upcoming Bihar assembly elections. <br/><br/>Replying to a media query in New Delhi, party spokesman Abhishek Manu Singhvi said it is a grand...

September 2, 2015 5:58 PM

OROP will not be discussed in BJP-RSS coordination meet: Ram Madhav

BJP has clarified that the One Rank, One Pension (OROP) issue related to ex-servicemen will not be discussed during the three day RSS- BJP coordination meeting which began in New Delhi today. <br/><br/>Talking to reporters, party General Secretary Ram Madhav said the OROP is a policy mat...

September 2, 2015 5:54 PM

Strike: 50% of country's coal production affected

At least 50 per cent of a day's production of about 1.7 million tonne of coal in the country was hit today as majority of about 4 lakh coal workers across the country joined the strike called by various trade unions.<br/><br/>Coal workers joined the nationwide strike on the call of ...

September 2, 2015 5:29 PM

Last date for filing I-T return extended to September 7

The Finance Ministry has extended the date for filling Income Tax returns by a week to 7th of September. The earlier date for filling returns was 31 of August. The Income Tax department earlier ,had extended the last date for filing I-T returns by residents of Gujarat to September 7 following disrup...

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